Joey Asal

While studying printmaking and sculpture in the midwest (Missouri), Joey became obsessed with exploring non-objective image making. After completing a BFA and BA respectively, Joey moved to Boston to continue developing his work. Paintings began to dominate his creative output as a pragmatic approach to materials became a circumstantial necessity. This pragmatism as well as philosophical investigations into deconstruction and existentialism led to the ideological appropriation of these concepts as a platform for the manipulation of materials as a narrative rubric for multiple bodies of work.

Joey began working with sound in late 2009, at a time when his plexi-glas, low relief sculptures had become thoroughly rendered as a body of work. Sound work seemed to animate the space to which his previous 2D work only drew attention. It became obvious that a truly visceral experience is composed of cascading stimuli, where visual and aural elements penetrate neutral space.

Joey’s current installation project strives to embrace the complexity of sensory experience, while embracing a collective consideration for space and density.

Joey’s work explores the dynamic capacity of material. Material being defined as the physical content of works, as well as the ephemeral space generated upon the juxtaposition of a thoughtful viewer and a composition. The kinetic qualities of a composition are rendered using formalistic considerations of line, color, and texture. Joey is interested in demystifying the art object, in light of inducing an exchange of energy between the work and viewer, functionally illuminating the human object as grounds for introspection and contemporary contextualization.